Are Gardaí drug tested?

idunnoshur

There's a story going around the town about a local guard who was transferred from "up the country" for being on drugs.

To be honest I think the story is complete drivel but it got me wondering whether or not Gardaí are drug tested.

Before anyone asks I'm not thinking of becoming a Guard.

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Stripey Cat

The cops on duty at the Shell protests in Mayo often smell of drink.

Drugs would surprise me though.

goldie fish

Stripey Cat wrote: »

The cops on duty at the Shell protests in Mayo often smell of drink.

Drugs would surprise me though.

Are you sure the smell isn't from a former schoolteacher?

Stripey Cat

goldie fish wrote: »

Are you sure the smell isn't from a former schoolteacher?

I think that's your gullibility.

goldie fish

Stripey Cat wrote: »

I think that's your gullibility.

Maybe it's from the protestors themselves, who seem to have the means to survive a life of leisure, wile everyone else tries to work for a living?

How did you get so close to smell a garda's breath anyway, unless you were one of those misguided "protestors".

Stripey Cat

goldie fish wrote: »

Maybe it's from the protestors themselves, who seem to have the means to survive a life of leisure, wile everyone else tries to work for a living?

How did you get so close to smell a garda's breath anyway, unless you were one of those misguided "protestors".

Why is "protesters" in inverted commas?

C-J

I'd need a drink dealing with that gang of skanks! Yuk

Tigger

gardai are not drug tested.
why do you ask

Hooch

Stripey Cat wrote: »

The cops on duty at the Shell protests in Mayo often smell of drink.

Drugs would surprise me though.

Thats pretty slanderous......care to back it up before I ban you and lock this thread?

OP no Gardaí are not tested at present

Stereomaniac

I was just going to say, that sounds like a fairly paranoid viewpoint. I doubt they were drunk.

misschoo

Hooch wrote: »

Thats pretty slanderous......care to back it up before I ban you and lock this thread?

OP no Gardaí are not tested at present

Mod - how do you back it up? Do you name & shame? I personally know of a Guard that drinks before going on duty but I'm hardly going to say any circumstances on here but I know it's a fact so am I going to be banned for saying this? so - how does someone back this up for you? Just a thought..........

Hooch

misschoo wrote: »

Mod - how do you back it up? Do you name & shame? I personally know of a Guard that drinks before going on duty but I'm hardly going to say any circumstances on here but I know it's a fact so am I going to be banned for saying this? so - how does someone back this up for you? Just a thought..........

Make a complaint http://www.gardaombudsman.ie, follow it through, get a result and then post the link to the news of it.

And next time PM a mod, don't question one on thread.